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hep-ex2025

Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons with IceCube DeepCore

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +421

The observation of neutrino oscillations has established that neutrinos have non-zero masses. This phenomenon is not explained by the Standard Model of particle physics, but one vi…

hep-ex2025

Measurement of the inelasticity distribution of neutrino-nucleon interactions for with IceCube DeepCore

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +425

We report a study of the inelasticity distribution in the scattering of neutrinos of energy GeV off nucleons. Using atmospheric muon neutrinos detected in IceCube's sub-ar…

hep-ex2024★ 7 cited

Search for a light sterile neutrino with 7.5 years of IceCube DeepCore data

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +420

We present a search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino using 7.5 years of data from the IceCube DeepCore detector. The analysis uses a sample of 21,914 events with energies between 5…

hep-ex2024★ 2 cited

Exploration of mass splitting and muon/tau mixing parameters for an eV-scale sterile neutrino with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +421

We present the first three-parameter fit to a 3+1 sterile neutrino model using 7.634 years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory on charged-current inter…

hep-ex2024★ 8 cited

Methods and stability tests associated with the sterile neutrino search using improved high-energy event reconstruction in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +419

We provide supporting details for the search for a 3+1 sterile neutrino using data collected over eleven years at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The analysis uses atmospheric mu…

hep-ex2024★ 15 cited

A search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino using improved high-energy event reconstruction in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +419

This Letter presents the result of a 3+1 sterile neutrino search using 10.7 years of IceCube data. We analyze atmospheric muon neutrinos that traverse the Earth with energies rangi…

hep-ex2023

The Relevance of Muon Deflections for Neutrino Telescopes

Pascal Gutjahr, Jean-Marco Alameddine, Alexander Sandrock +3

Large-scale neutrino telescopes have the primary objective to detect and characterize neutrino sources in the universe. These experiments rely on the detection of charged leptons p…

hep-ex2023★ 21 cited

Searching for Decoherence from Quantum Gravity at the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +401

Neutrino oscillations at the highest energies and longest baselines provide a natural quantum interferometer with which to study the structure of spacetime and test the fundamental…

hep-ex2023★ 56 cited

Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing with Improved IceCube DeepCore Calibration and Data Processing

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +404

We describe a new data sample of IceCube DeepCore and report on the latest measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations obtained with data recorded between 2011-2019. The sampl…

hep-ex2022★ 38 cited

Graph Neural Networks for Low-Energy Event Classification & Reconstruction in IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +380

IceCube, a cubic-kilometer array of optical sensors built to detect atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos between 1 GeV and 1 PeV, is deployed 1.45 km to 2.45 km below the surfac…

hep-ex2022★ 9 cited

First Search for Unstable Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +380

We present a search for an unstable sterile neutrino by looking for a matter-induced signal in eight years of atmospheric data collected from 2011 to 2019 at the IceCube Neut…

hep-ex2022★ 20 cited

Low Energy Event Reconstruction in IceCube DeepCore

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +381

The reconstruction of event-level information, such as the direction or energy of a neutrino interacting in IceCube DeepCore, is a crucial ingredient to many physics analyses. Algo…

hep-ex2022★ 34 cited

Density of GeV muons in air showers measured with IceTop

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +376

We present a measurement of the density of GeV muons in near-vertical air showers using three years of data recorded by the IceTop array at the South Pole. Depending on the shower…

hep-ex2021★ 8 cited

A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +362

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope operating at the South Pole. The main goal of IceCube is the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and the identification of their s…

hep-ex2021★ 59 cited

A Convolutional Neural Network based Cascade Reconstruction for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +364

Continued improvements on existing reconstruction methods are vital to the success of high-energy physics experiments, such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. In IceCube, further…

hep-ex2020★ 49 cited

Measurement of the high-energy all-flavor neutrino-nucleon cross section with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +361

The flux of high-energy neutrinos passing through the Earth is attenuated due to their interactions with matter. The interaction rate is modulated by the neutrino interaction cross…

hep-ex2020★ 71 cited

Searching for eV-scale sterile neutrinos with eight years of atmospheric neutrinos at the IceCube neutrino telescope

M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +373

We report in detail on searches for eV-scale sterile neutrinos, in the context of a 3+1 model, using eight years of data from the IceCube neutrino telescope. By analyzing the recon…

hep-ex2019★ 43 cited

Efficient propagation of systematic uncertainties from calibration to analysis with the SnowStorm method in IceCube

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +357

Efficient treatment of systematic uncertainties that depend on a large number of nuisance parameters is a persistent difficulty in particle physics experiments. Where low-level eff…

hep-ex2019★ 24 cited

Development of an analysis to probe the neutrino mass ordering with atmospheric neutrinos using three years of IceCube DeepCore data

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +331

The Neutrino Mass Ordering (NMO) remains one of the outstanding questions in the field of neutrino physics. One strategy to measure the NMO is to observe matter effects in the osci…

hep-ex2019★ 119 cited

Measurement of Atmospheric Tau Neutrino Appearance with IceCube DeepCore

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +327

We present a measurement of atmospheric tau neutrino appearance from oscillations with three years of data from the DeepCore sub-array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. This ana…

hep-ex2018★ 109 cited

Measurements using the inelasticity distribution of multi-TeV neutrino interactions in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +330

Inelasticity--the fraction of a neutrino's energy transferred to hadrons--is a quantity of interest in the study of astrophysical and atmospheric neutrino interactions at multi-TeV…

hep-ex2017★ 190 cited

Measurement of the multi-TeV neutrino cross section with IceCube using Earth absorption

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +314

Neutrinos interact only very weakly, so they are extremely penetrating. However, the theoretical neutrino-nucleon interaction cross section rises with energy such that, at energies…